Verbal Self Defense Quotes

#1. Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

Lebbeus Woods

#2. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted ...

C. G. Jung

#3. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Eugene H. Peterson

#4. I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist.

Jill Eikenberry

#5. O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain, - never suffer anything, - not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives, - it seems selfish. I ought to know such things, I ought to feel about them!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#6. I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.

Jeb Bush

#7. I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

Woody Allen

#8. Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Just love me, Myrna," he whispered against her lips. "Please."

~Brian "Master" Sinclair

Olivia Cunning

#10. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Anonymous

#11. My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives.

David Cameron

#13. screen that was longing to give me a lightning-bolt-thunder-roll odin-bloody headache

Robin McKinley

#14. The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

Clare Boothe Luce

#15. She wanted to be as still as they, wanted to be drawn into the dirt and reborn a million times, at the same time, like each little blade of smooth grass.

Ainslie Hogarth

#16. What did the zombie say to the whore?
Keep the tip!

Diana Rowland